[habs4ever]

My mother lost her favourite cousin in Normandy, at the ripe age of 17, and no matter how long it has been since that event, it brings back the tears every year.The Black Watch Regiment, of Montreal, got wiped out in one of the most notorious snafus of WW2 and when she went to the mass cemetary in Caen, to see his grave, with thousands of others, the impact was overwhelming.The sorrow never goes away, not shall it for any Vietnam Vet, or their loved ones.

But it is good to have their sacrifice and memory well served by movies like We Were Soldiers Once so that a new generation can appreciate what these young men in Vietnam did.

[MistyCA]

I am so sorry about your loss and the loss your mom suffered! I can well imagine how fresh the wound remains. My uncle talks of D-Day and landing at Omaha Beach as though it were yesterday. And the guilt of having survived that impossible situation is burdensome today! Thank you so much for your post and sharing your family's experience. I well know about the burden's being carried from Vietnam as well. There is a haunting in my family from those memories and the wounds that are carried. Some you see....some you don't. But always there is an urge to smash the television set when the likes of Hanoi Jane appear on the screen.